Retraction Notice, Vol. 13, August 4 Release
RETRACTION — Volume 13 — December 23, 2016
Suggested citation for this article: Retraction Notice, Vol. 13, August 4 Release. Prev Chronic Dis 2016;13:160044r. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160044rexternal icon.
To the Editor:
Due to an unintentional error, the MMAS-8 scale in our article, “Health and Nutrition Literacy and Adherence to Treatment in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension, North Carolina, 2015” (1), published on August 4, 2016, by Preventing Chronic Disease, was used without proper permission from Dr Donald E. Morisky and coauthors. We regret any problems our article may have caused, and we retract it from the literature.
Nikita Patel, BSPH; Maria Ferris, MD; Eniko Rak, PhD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Response: PCD marked this article as retracted on December 23, 2016.
References
- Patel N, Ferris M, Rak E. Health and Nutrition Literacy and Adherence to Treatment in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension, North Carolina, 2015. Prev Chronic Dis 2016;13:E101. CrossRefexternal icon PubMedexternal icon
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